have you the defensive marriage case, coming out of the first circuit in boston that. concerns whether federal law can define marriage as between a man and a woman, for purposes of public grants and programs and the like and the prop 8 case, a slightly different question that may not be fully resolved by the defensive marriage act, that goes to the constitutional questions about gay marriage t. will be very interesting, both it see how the supreme court ultimately resolves all of this, but as a first step, which case its wantses to take, which is something we should know in the next few weeks. quickly, a question here. this administration has said, it was going to stop defending doma in court nmost of the cases that were ongoing at the time. so basically, the house g.o.p. leadership, they are behind the defending it. who argue this is case? >> that's a great question. in fact,s that's something that was present in the briefs. paul clement, a former solicitor general under president bush filed a brief on the leadership, seeking to get the court to take the case. one arg